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In this article, I examine the relationship between mobility and trust in the work and life of a wide range of early modern diplomatic interpreters. I address this relationship by bringing together archival material unearthed by literary scholars and social historians: specifically, historians of...

Relaying the Epistemic Foundations of a Transcultural Natural Theology: Proving the Existence of God in Valignano’s Catechismus christianae fidei and Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu

Article | Contributor(s): Daniel Canaris

When European missionaries first entered Asia and the New World, they largely transposed to their new contexts European catechisms that assumed the intellectual passivity of the catechumen. The Jesuits, however, soon realized that such textual models would not be appropriate in East Asia which...

Maple Wood Heirlooms and the Re-formation of a Dynastic Identity: Elector John of Saxony’s Sermon Notes as Grapho-Relics

Article | Contributor(s): Daniel Gehrt

The widespread practice of taking notes on sermons as a form of learning and piety among literate Protestants in the sixteenth century has been largely untreated by scholars. This article offers a brief survey of this phenomenon before focusing on two eight-piece sets of palm-sized maple tablets...

The Case of Catherine Dammartin: Friends, Fellows, and the Survival of Celibacy in England’s Protestant Universities

Article | Contributor(s): K. J. Kesselring

Catherine Dammartin began her adult life as a nun in Metz but ended it in 1553 as a wife in an Oxford college. First laid to rest in Christ Church Cathedral, her corpse was later removed as a pollutant then finally restored in a ceremony that saw her bones mixed with those of the virgin St....

De la forme littéraire comme arme politique : l’effet-recueil dans la version française de la Detectio de George Buchanan

Article | Contributor(s): Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

Histoire de Marie Royne d’Escosse … constitutes the final outcome of a complex publishing history. This collection of texts, published in 1572, contains the only translation into French of George Buchanan’s Detectio, an unrelenting character assassination purporting to narrate the crimes of the...

Cestus Responds to Æthiopissa

Article | Contributor(s): Robert Whalen

Yale Osborn MS. b 197 includes a neglected witness, one of six, to George Herbert’s “Æthiopissa ambit Cestum Diuersi Coloris Virum,” followed by the only known copy of a twenty-two-line reply, “Cesti ad Æthiopissam Responsio.” This latter cannot be said with any certainty to be Herbert’s; it is...

Kohl, Benjamin G., Andrea Mozzato, and Monique O’Connell, gen. eds. The Rulers of Venice, 1332–1524. Database.

Article | Contributor(s): Giorgos Plakotos

Parker, Deborah, gen. ed. World of Dante. Other.

Article | Contributor(s): Brenda Deen Schildgen

Davies, Matthew, project dir. Records of London’s Livery Companies Online: Apprentices and Freemen 1400–1900 (ROLLCO). Database.

Article | Contributor(s): José Miguel Alcolado Carnicero

Bowden, Caroline (2012–13), and Michael Questier (2008–11), principal investigators. Who Were the Nuns? A Prosopographical Study of the English Convents in Exile 1600–1800. Database.

Article | Contributor(s): Jaime Goodrich

McRae, Andrew, and Philip Schwyzer, project dirs., gen. eds. The Poly-Olbion Project / The Children’s Poly-Olbion. Other.

Article | Contributor(s): Sandra Logan

Empey, Mark, Sarah Lindenbaum, Tara Lyons, Erin McCarthy, Micheline White, Georgianna Ziegler, and Martine van Elk, eds. Early Modern Female Book Ownership. Other.

Article | Contributor(s): Brenda M. Hosington